On 10/27/06, Leggett, Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
How does AFS compare to its stateless communication with NFS? We have had problems with vendors using NFS to maintain links (EMC comes to mind) to storage arrays, that fail often and hard.
I'm not quite sure what you mean by "using NFS to maintain links", but in any case AFS (like NFSv4 and CIFS) maintains state; is practice the behavior is roughly analogous to hard NFS mounts (i.e. client blocks until the server comes back). However for read-only volumes with copies on multiple servers, if one server goes down, the client automatically fails over to another server. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
